Cheerful Charlie
Contributor
Recent surveys by Pew show that many people who self identify as Christians do not believe in a personal God. 26% of self identified theists believe in God as an impersonal force.
A little poking around has led me to the concept of religious naturalism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_naturalism
Most odd. There seems then to be some sort of religious movement going on under our noses, but to what extent I can't say. I just want to throw this out since it interests me that there seems to be a lot of something going on, that may be worth knowing about.
Googling religious naturalism seems to pull up a lot of sites pushing this idea. There has always been some oddball ideas about religion burbling along in America, we may think back to the big to do made over the rise of neo-paganism a decade ago, but this seems to all have deeper roots and more numbers than Wiccans and neo-pagans do.
To tell the truth, I was somewhat startled to see 26% of theists in America may not believe in a personal, orthodox God. A 2006 study from Baylor, Piety in the 21st Century showed 15% of self identified Christians believing in an impersonal God as a force. So this is not totally new. There seems to be something of a movement away from standard Christianity. Deism, pantheism, impersonal Gods, process/open theology and who knows what else.
Anyway, heads up friends. Something strange is going on.
A little poking around has led me to the concept of religious naturalism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_naturalism
Most odd. There seems then to be some sort of religious movement going on under our noses, but to what extent I can't say. I just want to throw this out since it interests me that there seems to be a lot of something going on, that may be worth knowing about.
Googling religious naturalism seems to pull up a lot of sites pushing this idea. There has always been some oddball ideas about religion burbling along in America, we may think back to the big to do made over the rise of neo-paganism a decade ago, but this seems to all have deeper roots and more numbers than Wiccans and neo-pagans do.
To tell the truth, I was somewhat startled to see 26% of theists in America may not believe in a personal, orthodox God. A 2006 study from Baylor, Piety in the 21st Century showed 15% of self identified Christians believing in an impersonal God as a force. So this is not totally new. There seems to be something of a movement away from standard Christianity. Deism, pantheism, impersonal Gods, process/open theology and who knows what else.
Anyway, heads up friends. Something strange is going on.